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Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the snow-plowing dept.

OECD writes "NASA reports that a massive 100-mile-long iceberg is on a collision course (movie) with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA scientists expect a collision to occur no later than January 15, 2005."

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  1. Re:Ai chingawa... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I guess you will be giving up your car then, taking up public transport, switching to clean electricity sources, reducing your garbage, recycling, not buying products linked to deforestation, and so on.

    Its one thing to be scared its another to do something about it.

  2. Re:Ai chingawa... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Global warming is a fact, whether you like it or not. Some still argue as to what caused it (humans or it's a natural phenomenon) but, in my opnion, it does not matter. We all will have to deal with the effects and theres no reason to deny it.

  3. Re:Offtopic by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've always found interesting that, in English, two words that are spelled differently can be pronounced the same.

    Or in this case, a Dutch word (berg) like a German (burg).

  4. Re:Ai chingawa... by Flaming+Foobar · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm still skeptical about global warming seeing as how antartica is getting colder and the ice there is growing, among other things.

    I've seen this stated in exactly one TV documentary. A documentary, which claimed that each and every other study on global warming is based on false data. Has this new study been peer-reviewed? Does anyone have any more info?

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  5. Re:This is important because... by DLWormwood · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You mean the way your ice cube tray overflows when the ice melts? Think again.

    Uh, no. This is Antarctica, where most of the glacier is over land or supported by it in some way. If the glacier slides off, it would cause an increase (abeit slight) in ocean levels.

    This is my biggest gripe with how the media messed up public perception of "global warming." The press focuses so much on "rising ocean levels" due to melting floating ice that they gave the cranks ammunition to debunk the science. The reality is that it should be called "climatic change" and is more likely to cause extremes of drought/flooding and drifting of ariable land than anything else. This website used to be a good resource for the topic, specifically arguing that the "greenhouse effect" is completely different from global warming.

    Climate change is happening, but no one will take the problem seriously anymore, since what everybody feared would happen can't. (Leading to people ignoring what will happen.)

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